SECANDA paper models for downloading

Chapelle St-Tremeur, au Guilvinec  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 15.3 version 2b updated

Coastal chapel from the Pays Bigouden in western Brittany. Like some other chapels in this area, it is devoid of western portal. More information and Download...

Chapelle St-Evy, en St-Jean-Trolimon  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 15.2 version 2b updated

Small chapel from the Pays Bigouden in western Brittany. Evidence of the ancient cults of the water, it was not built next to a fountain of devotion but on a fountain. More information and Download...

Église Ste-Agnès, de Tréfumel  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 15.6 version 2b updated

Romanesque church belonging to a very homogeneous local architectural group and specific to the Pays des Faluns (upper valley of Rance river) in Brittany. More information and Download...

Chapelle St-Vio, en Tréguennec  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 15.1 version 2b updated

Small coastal chapel from the Pays Bigouden in western Brittany. It was built near a protohistoric stele that the tradition interprets as the "Boat of St-Vio". More information and Download...

Chapelle de la Tréminou, en Plomeur  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 15.8 version 2b updated

This beautiful chapel from the <i>Pays Bigouden</i> in western Brittany is an important place of the revolt of the <i>Bonnets rouges</i> during the 17th century in Britanny. The "« Code Paysan »" was proclaimed in front of the chapel, a kind of prelude to the French Revolution. More information and Download...

Église Saint-Boscat de Tréogat  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 23.1 version 1a

A beautiful church of the Pays Bigouden (SW of Brittany in France) from the beginning of the 14th century, partly in the style named "École de Pont-Croix" and largely built in prasinite. More information and Download...

Iglesia Santa Comba de Bande  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 22.4 version 2b

The church Santa Comba de Bande is a small Spanish church from the Visigothic period. Its plan is in Greek cross. Despite its respectable age (it is dated from the 7th century) its state of conservation is remarkable.

All the roofs of the model are removable in order to observe the inner layout. More information and Download...

Tronoën chapel and calvary  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 22.2 version 1a

This famous Breton chapel and its great calvary (the oldest in Brittany) date from the 15th century. The beauty of this chapel and its location in the dunes of the Pays Bigouden led to its being nicknamed the "Cathedral of the sands". More information and Download...

Chapelle Saint-Étienne de Nantes  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 22.1 version 1a

This small, modest-looking chapel is very old, as evidenced by its beautiful, typically Roman masonry. It probably dates from the very end of the imperial period or the beginning of the High Middle Ages. More information and Download...

Qubbat As-Sakhrah (Dome of the Rock)  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 19.3 version 1a

This iconic Jerusalem building is the oldest and one of the most famous of Islamic Art. Stylistically, it is an Arab-Byzantine building of the 7th century and its famous blue exterior decoration is Ottoman of the 16th century. More information and Download...

Ste-Mère-Église church "The D-Day church"  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 19.2 version 1a

This Gothic church has a great architectural interest that has nothing to do with its fame. It entered History when the American paratroopers jumped on Sainte-Mère-Église; this event was immortalized by the movie The longest day. More information and Download...

Iglesia San Juan Bautista de Baños de Cerrato  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 18.4 version 1a

This old Spanish church is the only one of the Visigothic period having its date of consecration known with certainty (661). Paper model with removable roof showing inside the nave, which is the major part of the building because it remains intact from 7th century. More information and Download...

Tour Solidor (Solidor Tower)  [1:150]

ref.: Secanda 18.3 version 1a

This fortress was built in the 14th century by the duke of Brittany Jean IV, to control he estuary of the Rance river near St-Malo. It shelters now the Musée international du long-cours cap-hornier. More information and Download...

Église St-Gobrien de Morieux  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 17.3 version 1.a

The nave (late 11th - early 12th century) of this church is a rare and well preserved example of the Romanesque architecture in Brittany and is a typical example of it. The Gothic choir is newer. More information and Download...

Ermita de Nuestra Señora de las Viñas  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 17.2 version 1.a

This pretty little Spanish pre-Romanesque hermitage is the remaining part of a much larger 7th century Visigothic church. Its interior and exterior decoration is remarkable. More information and Download...

Iglesia San Pedro de la Nave  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 17.1 version 1a

This Spanish church dates from the end of the Visigothic period (7th and 8th centuries) and is the most complete and best preserved of this period. It was moved and reassembled from its original site due to the erection of a dam. More information and Download...

Iglesia Santa Cristina de Lena  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 16.12 version 1a

This small church of the ninth century is a masterpiece of the Asturian Pre-Romanesque art (northern Spain). It is classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. The model has a removable roof to see the complex inside of the nave. More information and Download...

Église de St-Nectaire  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 16.9 version 1a

This famous church is a masterpiece of the Romanesque art and a very representative example of the style of the Romanesque architecture from Auvergne, in central France ("massif barlong" on the transept crossing, blind nave with inner galleries and outer arches, etc.). More information and Download...

Chapelle du Temple, en Pléboulle  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 16.8 version 1a

Originally, this Breton chapel was possibly a Templar or Hospitaller chapel although no ancient document will allow to formally attest it. However it was modifyed thereafter. More information and Download...

Capella de San Miguel de Celanova  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 16.4 version 2a

This tiny chapel is a jewel of the Mozarabic art in Galicia (Spain). The term "Mozarabic" refers to the style of Hispanic Christians medieval buildings constructed in the areas at this time under Muslim occupation. More information and Download...

Chapelle St-Etienne, de Guer  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 16.2 version 1a

Looking like a old barn, this modest chapel, formerly inside a priory, is one of the oldest chapel in Britanny. It has a rare and remarkable chevet which difficult to date but whose style recalls the Carolingian era. More information and Download...

Former St-Pierre cathedral of Alet  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 16.1 version 1a

Restitution of the former cathedral of Alet (now Saint-Servan in Saint-Malo, Brittany) based on the remaining ruins and available archaeological data. This big pre-Romanesque building, today in ruins, was noticeable for its two apses, West and East. More information and Download...

Église St-Melaine, d'Andouillé-Neuville  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 15.9 version 1a

The nave of this rural church was originally the former chapel of the castle, then it became later the parish church. The castle today disappeared. More information and Download...

Royal necropolis-abbey of Maxent  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 15.7 version 1a

Restitution attempt, based on available archaeological data, of the former abbey founded in Maxent by Salomon, the last king of Britanny in the Carolingian period. More information and Download...

Chapelle Ste-Agathe, de Langon  [1:100]

ref.: Secanda 15.4 version 1a

This tiny chapel is the oldest chapel in Britain. It was established in the former home thermals of a Roman villa now disappeared. More information and Download...